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No. 358,058. A Patented Feb. 22, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. MUTIER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BACK FOR PICTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,058. dated February22, 1887.

Application filed July 21, 1886. Serial No. 208,615. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. MUTrER, of Buffalo, in the county of Erieand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementson Backs for Pictures, 850.; and I do hereby declare that the followingdescription of my said invention, taken in connection with theaccompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exactspecification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertaius to make and use the same.

My present invention has general reference to backs for pictures, &c.;and it consists, essentially, of the novel and peculiar combination ofparts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forthand described, then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate my saidinvention more fully, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a backconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a plan.

The object of my present invention is the production of a durable,cheap, and well-look-' ing back for pictures. To attain this result, Iconstruct my picture backs of a series of boards of sufficient thicknessand suitable width. These boards A A A, I then secure together acrosstheir abutting joints by means of narrow strips of cotton or othersuitable fabric glued to the said boards, and on the opposite side by asheet of Manilla rope or other proper and strong paper. The object ofthus gluing a sheet of the paper described is to convert the otherwiseusually rough and unsightly-looking board into a good-looking surfacehaving approximately the appearance ofaplaned pine board, said Manillarope pa per being of such a color and owing to its tenacity anddurability well designed to hold the boards together. The strips ofcotton B are glued over the longitudinal joints of the severalpieees'composing the back. They are cut somewhat longer than the lengthof the joint to be covered, so that the surplus length may be foldedover the edge of the pieces of board and onto the opposite side, asshown at D, where the pieces are glued upon either the side of the boardprevious to its being covered with paper, or, preferably, before thesaid paper is applied, so that the paper will cover the textile fabricand present an undisturbed and level surface.

By having the textile fabric pass around the edges of the boards Iderive an advantage not to be attained by any other method of procedure,which is that the joints cannot readily be torn apart, the cloth on saidedges forming, as it were, a selvage, which cannot be disturbed withoutconsiderable effort.

Instead of turning the textile fabric over onto the side opposite towhere it is applied, I may double the same on the edges of the boards toform a so-called selvage, and thereby obtain nearly, though not quite,the same results as those obtained by the method described. Such aconstruction is shown at E, Fig. 1, and is considered an equivalent ofthe method heretofore described.

Heretofore, backs for pictures have been produced by gluing sheets ofpaper on both sides of the boards. This construction, though practicallyserving a good purpose, is yet objectiouable, owing to the fact that,especially in large backs, the gluing of the paper on both sides is veryexpensive, while at the same time it does not afford that degree ofstrength to the jointed pieces that is necessary and desirable'for largeand valuable pictures. This objection is entirely overcome in myinvention, and at the same time the cost of production reduced to quitea degree.

Having thus full described myinvention, I claim as new and desire tosecure to me by Letters Patent of the United States An improved articleof manufacture, consisting of a series of contiguous strips forming aplate, one side of said plate being provided with a paper facing securedthereto by an adhesive material, the joints on the other side of theplate being provided with and covered by strips of fabric, the ends ofsaid strips eX-

